To investigate time changes in the association of breast conservation with hospital caseload, an additional analysis was conducted including, as well as age, severity and comorbidity, a dichotomized variable for volume of activity (large versus medium and small hospitals), a linear term for the calendar year, and an interaction term between the latter two variables.
Although our categorisation of specialist status might be construed as subjective compared to any definition based on caseload, it was assigned before analysis.
As yet there is no cost benefit analysis of the caseload midwifery model for women of all risk anywhere in the world.
Moreover, the need to perform multivariate regression to factor in covariates complicates analysis in a clinical caseload of patients.
Caseload was also significantly correlated in univariate analysis and showed, for a given team size, that higher caseload led to better clinical performance.
This analysis would also estimate the caseload for obtaining a break-even point and for identifying the profile of patients for whom the intervention was more cost-effective.
Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert L. Megna, said that the committee needed to find less in savings than budgeters had originally thought, because a revised budget analysis was projecting that the Medicaid caseload would grow less than expected.
For the purpose of subgroup analysis, respondents were assigned to either a 'low-caseload group' or a 'high-caseload group', depending on the frequency of exposure to suspected pneumothorax cases and the frequency of LUS usage.
AAA, Analysis of the AAA's Consumer Arbitration Caseload, online at http://www.adr.org/ si.asp?id=5027 (all Internet materials as visited Apr. 25, 2011, and available in Clerk of Court's case file).
20 A previous study 17 used only two volume categories in its hospital episode statistics based analysis and defined an "optimum" annual institutional caseload of 11 cases per year.
